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Ely market report CF5, Cardiff
The CF5 (Ely) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 32,629 registered sales in CF5 (Cardiff) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CF5 (Cardiff) home changed hands for £285,000 in 2026 (median of 345 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £308,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,230 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 32,629 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CF5 is a postcode district covering Ely, Caerau, St Fagans in Cardiff. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CF5 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in CF5
The 2026 median for CF5 is £285,000, taken from 345 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £308,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CF5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CF5 costs about £3,230 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CF5 runs 0% above it.
CF5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 345 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 920 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 906 |
| 2023 | £263,800 | £289,852 | 968 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 1,144 |
| 2021 | £262,000 | £331,726 | 1,259 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 850 |
| 2019 | £222,500 | £291,644 | 1,093 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 1,066 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 1,049 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 1,056 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 908 |
| 2014 | £164,200 | £232,946 | 944 |
| 2013 | £157,500 | £226,627 | 830 |
| 2012 | £152,500 | £224,461 | 713 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 698 |
| 2010 | £157,000 | £246,216 | 756 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 635 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 619 |
| 2007 | £156,700 | £265,807 | 1,224 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 1,293 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 1,010 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 1,372 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 1,465 |
| 2002 | £90,800 | £170,839 | 1,562 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 1,516 |
| 2000 | £71,500 | £140,319 | 1,383 |
| 1999 | £65,300 | £130,139 | 1,144 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 948 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 1,114 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 974 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 865 |
In cash terms the typical CF5 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 162%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CF5 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−9.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £382,500 against £152,500 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, CF5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £382,500 | 60 | 5,600 |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | 99 | 10,028 |
| Terraced | £275,000 | 143 | 12,872 |
| Flats | £152,500 | 43 | 4,129 |
How many homes change hands in CF5
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 740 CF5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,353 sales a year before the financial crisis and 857 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The shape of the CF5 market
Among the 35 measurable districts of its area, CF5 ranks 8 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Rents around CF5
For renting purposes CF5 sits in Cardiff. The ONS average private rent there is £1,157 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £894 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,677 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cardiff
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £285,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,157 a month (£13,884 a year) works out at a 4.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about CF5 (Ely)
Is CF5 (Ely) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF5 (Ely)?
Are property prices falling in CF5 (Ely)?
Where do CF5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in CF5 today
Everything above is what homes in CF5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 123 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the CF5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CF5 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in CF
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CF area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £275,000 | £367,000 (+33%) | £550,000 (+50%) | £790,000 (+44%) |
| Semi-detached | £190,000 | £217,000 (+14%) | £260,000 (+20%) | £380,000 (+46%) | £530,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £169,000 | £149,000 (-12%) | £190,000 (+28%) | £300,000 (+58%) | £452,500 (+51%) |
| Flat | £140,000 | £180,000 (+29%) | £275,000 (+53%) | £417,500 (+52%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CF5 ranks 30 of 35 in the CF area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
CF area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CF5, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF5 1 | £325,000 | 86 |
| CF5 2 | £313,000 | 50 |
| CF5 3 | £247,500 | 64 |
| CF5 4 | £235,000 | 53 |
| CF5 5 | £192,500 | 40 |
| CF5 6 | £356,000 | 52 |
How CF5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CF area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CF71 | £445,000 | -1% |
| CF15 | £365,000 | +22% |
| CF64 | £355,000 | +17% |
| CF36 | £333,000 | +20% |
| CF14 | £330,000 | +6% |
| CF61 | £309,200 | +24% |
| CF23 | £300,000 | +2% |
| CF5 (this report) | £285,000 | +9% |
| CF35 | £275,000 | +31% |
| CF62 | £270,000 | +20% |
| CF3 | £250,000 | +14% |
| CF24 | £242,500 | +21% |
| CF83 | £236,000 | +28% |
| CF72 | £233,500 | +2% |
| CF38 | £232,500 | +21% |
| CF11 | £230,000 | +10% |
| CF31 | £225,000 | +18% |
| CF33 | £220,000 | +37% |
| CF32 | £201,000 | +44% |
| CF63 | £200,000 | +23% |
| CF82 | £191,000 | +19% |
| CF10 | £181,800 | +2% |
| CF46 | £172,500 | +24% |
| CF81 | £158,200 | +35% |
Thinking of selling in CF5? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CF5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CF5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CF5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.